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Superb - Great character and perfect animation.
Dang, I wish I could do that...

Okeydokey - Changed the hair and her eyes. Looks a bit better, I think.

Ooh, I'd love to have an old womans costume and a wig lying around somewhere, with lots of birds sitting on top of it...   Just to add some Hitchcock influences...
And don't forget a flickering TV-set alá Poltergeist...  

Ok, I see what you mean! Thanks for the help!
I'll whip up an edited version in no time...

I personally prefer darker outlines, like Archangel - But it's all up to you. It looks pretty good, on the whole, but it's a very clean room - Add some furniture and other stuff to make it look more "alive"...

Also, the lamp cord shouldn't be all wobbly like that if it's hanging in the air.

Darth-Mandarb:
Hey, I'm glad you like the style. I know that the shine on the hair looks odd, but I had no real idea on how to convert the look of it from the photo to the picture.
Basically I should just reduce the colours, right?
(Or I could make another layer of shading on the rest of the picture, as you said. I'll see what turns out the best.) Thank you very much for commenting!

Boyd:
Ok - What's wrong with the nose? Too big? Disoriented?
The eyelashes was also a pain to do - Can't seem to get them right. They look terribly blurred in the original.
And thanks for commenting!

OK, Boyd, Nostrum and N3TGraph - The beta is ready now!
I'll send you all an IM.

Anyone else volunteering?

Sounds good to me, Snake. Looking forward to see what you have got in store for us...

Ok, I haven't really tried to do any tracing over photos before, but I sat down a couple of days ago and started doing this:



Now, I'm fairly pleased, but I need some tips - What could be improved? Shading, etc... And yes, I want her to have that skin colour... Hehe...
(Any comments regarding her similarities to Synthetiques alien I deny completely... )

Any comments are welcome...

I know this one is bad, but what the heck...  

Lots of good entries, but in the end, I'll cast my vote on Ali's Rincewind Calavera...   Superb.

Ok, here's two old and classic(But not so well-known...) movies:

"The Kennel Murder Case" - 1933
William Powell is perfect as amateur detective Philo Vance, who has to solve a mysterious case, where everything points at suicide, but where Vance points at murder. Atmospheric, exciting and a great detective story.

"The Cocoanuts" - 1929
I love the Marx Bros, and this one, their first feature film, is by far my favourite. Filled to the brim with classical gags and jokes, and with brilliant performances from Groucho, Harpo and Chico.  

"Do you understand everything now?"
"Yes, everything except the why a duck."

Ooh - Oldies...

Hitchcock:
"Suspicion" - Perhaps my favourite of Hitchs moives. A charming love story that evolves into a exciting thiller, where you in the end really don't know what to believe... Great acting by both Cary Grant and Joan Fountaine.

"Spellbound" - The whole psychoanalysis-theme doens't work quite all the way, but one cannot help but love the surreal dream-sequenses designed by Salvador Dali and all the cleverly shot scenes (i.e: Peck walking down the stairs with the knife in his hand, etc...)

"North By Northwest" - Already mentioned, but I'll just say it's one heck of a  good movie.

"Psycho" - Going from the previous one to this is one huge step, but Hitch does it brilliantly. Everything is perfect about this film. The bone-chilling music, the eerie black-and-white photo, the stunning performance from Anthony Perkins and all the other actors... Remarkable.

"Rear Window" - Hitchcock does his very own peepshow, and we are invited to watch... Another grand film, with both technical landwinnings and top-notch acting.

"The Birds" - Not only does he suffice by creating the very first "Psychotic Killer"-themed horror movie, he also does the very first horror film where a huge amount of seemingly "innocent" creatures go to attack against people...

Ok, as you can see, I'm very fond of Hitchcock...

But of course there's not just his movies that earn a place on this list - Here's some other magnificent movies:

"Shichinin no samurai"(I saw it late one night on tv, and loved it... Got to buy it soon...)
"A Clockwork Orange"
"Casablanca"
"The Big Sleep"
"The Godfather"
"Citizen Kane"
"The Terminator" (I don't know if it counts as an oldie or not, but it's one hell of a movie. Better than T2, in my opinion.)
"Alien"
"Airplane!"(Yep, I'm considering that to be one of the best. Don't ask me why, but I just love that film.)

Well, that doesn't cover every good film, but it's some of them... Hehe.


(And "Being There" is also a great movie - Too bad I just saw it once.)

Wow, man - I really like your style - And the background is excellent!
Give us more.  

That sounds very much like one of those
"Dear Sir, I'm Robert This-And-That the 3rd, and my father... Please deposit to my account..."-type of spam that's been cirkling around a lot recently. It's just that this one isn't begging for money...
It sounds like someone is trying to be funny on your behalf to me.

Yeah, I suppose they some sort of kick out of doing it. Bah.  

Ouch, man - That's bad. Why do something like that? Can't they realize that they are destroying for other people?  

Wow! Duzz, my man - This looks absolutely stunning! You keep on working on this game! Can't wait to play it!

Hey, thanks Nostrum, Boyd and N3TGraph - I will contact you when it's ready for testing.

N3TGraph:
That's allright - You keep on trying, man. There's no real hurry...

Imagine a Detective Mosely game, or maybe a historical game starring one of the earlier Schattenjagers of the Ritter family. That could be one hell of a game.

GarageGothic, that's a really good idea - A spin-off game is perhaps better than making a "real" GK fan-game, considering the points you mentioned.

One silly idea that I had been thinking of though, is a vga-remake of GK2...
I don't know why, but I just started to think about how GK2 would have looked if it was made in the same graphical style as GK1... ( And without Dean Ericson...) Probabably just a dumb dream...

Agswannabe:
I would reccomend buying it instead, since it is still available(At least I think so...) on the market.